[3][4][5] It had a US$8 million production budget and some of the profits from the distribution of the film are to be given to projects in the city that promote co-existence.

The film-makers were given special access to holy sites and several of the little-known parts of the city.

They were permitted to film aerial shots of areas normally treated as no-fly zones.

[8][10][11] Jerusalem presents the city through the eyes of three teenagers – a Jew, Christian and Muslim - and the archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Washington Post described the panoramic photography as "at once awe-inspiring and intimate" and said watching the film "may be as close as a person can get to praying at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Western Wall, without actually going there".